"A curiously Christian webcomic"
Imagine if The Oatmeal became terrible and was written by a fundamentalist Christian without an ounce of subtlety. http://t.co/ijI3JAuJii
- Zach Weinersmith (@ZachWeiner) August 16, 2015
Yeah, this bullshit is indeed pretty disgusting, and a flagrant ripoff of the style of The Oatmeal, which I've linked to before. (Though the fact that this thing is blatantly aping The Oatmeal, which is not itself a paragon of subtlety in the first place, is not even remotely the worst thing about this thing, obviously.) These things kind of look like a modern retread of those old, ridiculous Chick tracts. It's straw man city all up in there.
I have to wonder if this shit is actually real or just another parody of the real. But then, as I've always asked whenever this particular sort of Poe's Law issue comes up: which is worse, to actually be something that terrible, or to merely pretend to be something that terrible to the point that nobody else can tell the difference unless you fess up to it, in the dubious pursuit of "lulz" or whatever? I honestly don't know the answer to that question, and I'm not entirely sure it even matters, really. In the end, whether it's real or parody, it makes Christians (or at least Christians similar to this guy, assuming for a moment the guy really is a Christian and not merely a parody of one) look like absolute assholes (and if he is really a Christian, then he seems rather fond of using the No true Christian argument against those who disagree with him, but still claim to be Christian).
(EDIT) Also, as a direct result of this, I found out about the website donotlink.com which lets you link to websites like the above without actually directly linking to them. So, if nothing else good came of this, there is that, at least. I've changed the original link to the guy's website above accordingly. "Other users have classified this link as: nonsense." Yeah, I'd definitely agree with that. I went with "nonsense" as well when it asked me, but if I could have picked more than one, though, I'd have picked "nonsense" and "offensive." (/EDIT)
(EDIT 2) Oh, and if this don't take the cake: this fucker is currently making over $4000 per month on Patreon. How about that. I guess being a fundie shitbag (or, perhaps, a parody thereof) pays pretty well, it looks like. Go figure. Then again, on the bright side, I suppose it's much better that these people waste their cash on a money-sink like this guy's Patreon, rather than using it to support similarly idiotic, but potentially much more damaging political candidates or whatever. (/EDIT 2)